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The Salmon of Doubt

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

Rescued from his beloved Macintosh, The Salmon of Doubt provides us with the opportunity to linger and frolic one last time in the uniquely entertaining and richly informative mind of Douglas Adams. For the millions of readers who expressed their grief and shock at his untimely death, this is a treasure; his final book and our last chance to see new work from an acknowledged comic genius.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Douglas Adams was a gifted futurist, humorist, and self-effacing humanoid. His hard drive and clippings yield some gems here in a loving posthumous read of bits, bytes, lectures, articles, and nonsequiturs. The much adored author of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is given his final hurrah by close friends Stephen Fry, Christopher Cerf, and others. This mirthful catalog of verbiage culled from his many computer hard drives and notes addresses technology, the environment, the Beatles, life as a modern human, and much more. Fans of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE and DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY will especially enjoy this offering and its warm and witty read. D.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 15, 2002
      Edited by Peter Guzzardi and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, this bittersweet collection comprises letters, fragments of ideas for books, films and TV, ruminations on a diverse array of subjects and a good bit of a final unfinished novel by the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, who died in May of last year. Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy's magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire
      entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent
      espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia's Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches—"The Private Life of Genghis Khan"
      and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"—from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress. National advertising. (May 7)Forecast:The audience for this will be Adams completists, but there are enough of them to make for respectable sales.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:1120
  • Text Difficulty:7-9

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